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With regardsregard to combination (or bundling) data, this is prevalent in any object that is created. An object's state will depend on its methods that do work on or with the object's internal data.

An analogy can be made here with the notion of a [[Information hiding|capsule]], which not only encloses its contents, but also protects it from the exterior environment.<ref name=Dale/>